Student Resources

Scholarships

The Art & Art History Department offers students three scholarship opportunities each year.

Museum Partnerships

Boston is home to a number of world-class museums. We encourage UMass Boston students to take full advantage of these institutions, and to use the privileged access that our students enjoy.

Forms

Academic Program Brochures

Advising Forms

Student Lounge & Library

The Art & Art History Department offers its majors and minors access to its student lounge, located on the same floor as faculty offices and departmental resources. In addition to comfortable and well-lit seating, the space also offers a significant collection of books on art and art history. These books cover topics of interest in historical and contemporary art practice as well as some relevant to current courses. Majors and minors must visit the departmental administrative assistant to have their key card programmed for access.

Workspaces and Facilities

Printmaking

Intaglio etching presses (30” French Tool, 36” Brand, 24” Whelan)
AmerGraph Exposure System for screen printing and photo etching
Fume hood ventilation
Dayton Foot Shear
Epson Inkjet printer and digital scanning capabilities

Sculpture and Woodshop

SawStop 1.75-HP Professional Cabinet
Saw Rikon 14” Bandsaw
Bosch 12” Dual-Bevel Glide Miter Saw
Jet 20” Floor Drill Press
Jet Combination Belt and Disc Sander
DeWalt 20” Scroll Saw
Baileigh Industrial downdraft table
Spray booth

Digital Media

Graphtec CE6000 Vinyl Cutting Plotter
Epilog Zing 16 Laser Cutter

Photography

Epson large format printers with output up to 44”
GTI GraphicLite Professional Desktop Viewer
Eizo ColorEdge Monitor
Imacon film scanner Epson scanners for film
Six-station darkroom and film developing area

Video

Studio for green screen and blackout shooting Sound recording room with Mackie Pro mixing board
Four animation stand workstations
Light table for traditional and experimental animation processes

Visual Resources Center

The Visual Resources Center (VRC) provides high quality images and digital asset management for teaching and research by UMass Boston departments/centers/institutes.

Digital asset management is via Shared Shelf (a subscription service, annual fixed fee plus space charge) with distribution via Artstor to either closed community (UMass Boston only), open web (via sscommons.org), or with porting to an Omeka website. Tighter control of images can be achieved with Shared Shelf which is suitable for pre-publication images that need to be closely held.

We also publish images of the Art Department student's creative work from time to time, which you can peruse in our simple Omeka site, UMass Boston Student Artwork.

The VRC is part of the Art & Art History Department and is housed in University Hall, 4th Floor, Room 4257. We have a beautiful space-- come visit us or, if you'd like more information, contact the Art & Art History Department Visual Resources Manager, Louise Putnam.

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